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Tembeka Ngcukaitobi has been appointed as an acting justice of the Constitutional Court, with his term scheduled to run from 1 June to 30 November 2026. That appointment has produced a wave of celebration across social media and among commentators who read it as a victory for black excellence in the legal profession. In the…
I read the headline twice because I thought I had misunderstood it. Former prison guard houses on Robben Island may be converted into tourist accommodation. At first, I assumed it was satire. It felt too tone-deaf to be real. But we are well past April Fool’s Day and the proposal is exactly what it sounds…
Thirty years after the start of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Under the Shade of a Tree I Sat and Wept arrives not to commemorate but to question. In collaboration with the Kosovo-based Qendra Multimedia, the production draws an unlikely but deeply resonant parallel between the TRC and Kosovo’s Movement for the Reconciliation…
Joe Latakgomo, a giant of black journalism in South Africa and founding editor of Sowetan newspaper, who died recently, was one of those special big-picture journalists who not only saw journalism as uncovering the truth, holding power accountable but who were also active community-builders. The sort that were involved in strengthening community civic life, civic…
Israel has crossed a line it has long approached but never formally declared: legalising the killing of prisoners. By passing a law permitting the execution of Palestinian detainees, what they once carried out in the shadows with impunity now stands codified in law. In a system where Palestinian conviction rates in military courts are consistently…
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution A/80/L.48, declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement of Africans to be the gravest crime against humanity. The decision was long overdue. It marked a rare moment in which the international community chose truth over convenience, history over…
Recent water outages in Johannesburg are not just a municipal service delivery issue or infrastructural issue, as claimed but a deep systemic issue deeply rooted in the legacy of apartheid. During apartheid, urban planning deliberately prioritised white suburbs with robust infrastructure while Black townships received minimal investment. After 1994, the democratic government inherited these inequities. …
Mourners gathered in Bloemfontein on Saturday to bid farewell to struggle veteran Mosiuoa Lekota, remembered as a towering figure in South Africa’s liberation struggle whose life was defined by service, conviction and an unwavering commitment to justice. Delivering the eulogy, Deputy President Paul Mashatile described Lekota as a giant whose political journey spanned some of…
A spokeswoman for the 49-year-old, released last week on bail of more than R15m, said he is waiting for permission from the UN to travel.
Francesca Albanese stood before more than 3 500 people at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday evening and told them the world was watching its conscience collapse. “The laws created to stop states from destroying each other are now being used to justify that destruction,” she said. Delivering the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual…